i guarantee if republicans were doing that to a black candidate you would have heard jesse jackson and many others would have come down here. we need to eastbound pose that. >> president won 96% of the black vote can. why is that? >> i think once again, we have not done a good job of countering their hateful rhetoric that demonizes the republicans. we have lost our republican history why the republican party was established in the first place which is the open litigation of savory. our civil rights legislation history that we need to bring to the forefront once again and talk about how we want to make sure that everyone is part of the opportunity society and not dependency society. when you talk about the 4% decrease in the family income across the united states of america, that is 11% median family income decrease for black families. so those are the type of very critical points we need to bring out to the black community to let them know there can be a better path. >> let me ask. you are still a member of congress and will be until january. we are getting all kinds of indications fro